On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:11 PM, François Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote: > On -10/01/-28163 20:59, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> Sad news - QEMU was not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012. >> > > Shame, there is so much to do. > >> Students can consider other organizations in the accepted >> organizations list here: >> >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2012 >> >> The list is currently not complete but should be finalized over the >> next few days as organizations complete their profiles. > > I just heard Haiku is on the accepted list. > > Last year a student worked on finishing the VirtualBox guest additions I > started writing: > https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/scgtrp/2011-09-05_vbox_guest_additions_slightly_late_final_progress_report > > It should be possible to come up with a project involving QEMU on Haiku > if anyone is interested. > While there is an existing QEMU port, I'm not sure in what state it > currently is. > > QEMU proved useful to Haiku developers up to now, cf. > http://revolf.free.fr/beos/quf-haiku-qemu-abstract.pdf
Thanks François. Just like QEMU was planning to offer libvirt and kvm an umbrella org, it may well be possible for students to do QEMU-related projects for other orgs. >> >> Students and mentors who wanted to participate with QEMU will be >> disappointed. I am too but there are many factors that organizations >> are considered against, we have not received information why QEMU was >> rejected this year. > > Well, ReactOS tried and failed several times to be accepted without > being given any reason, if that is of any comfort. Yep, we will definitely try next year. Stefan
